Fox Comics Appreciation Thread! 20 20

[lou_fine]

10 hours ago, adamstrange said:

I don't know, but the Church copy was super lovely when I saw it last year.

Yes, it's most definitely hard to beat a Church copy of any book.  

That is, unless you've got the highest graded copy of one of these later rare HTF Fox books that doesn't have a Church copy or in fact, any other known pedigree copy, such as:

Still a nice copy, but probably could do with a bit less of the crinkling that seems to be taking place on the top edge there.     

[lpsunburst]

I do love those later issues as well, decent copies are very hard to come by but mine is ok.

[lpsunburst]

I congratulated Gino on joining the MM 30 club and he asked about my copy so here it is, lots of amateur CT but you take what you can get with these later books.

[lou_fine]

2 hours ago, lpsunburst said:

I do love those later issues as well, decent copies are very hard to come by but mine is ok.

Not too much of a visual difference (as it should be) between your CGC 5.0 copy here as compared to Berk's former CGC 5.5 graded copy.  

The edges from what I can see appears to be a lot sharper on your copy as compared to Berk's copy, especially with respect to the top edge of the book. 

[lpsunburst]

The Sarasota Santa came a little early, here are some of the goodies he delivered. this one has what might be my favorite Kooba ad on the back cover "Drink to Me Only..."

[lpsunburst]

And since we have been talking about late run coolness...

[lpsunburst]

This one also just came in.

[lou_fine]

Well, it definitely looks like Santa's figured out that somebody's been nice, and not naughty this year.  

Congrats on all of your beautiful late Fox pickups here.  

[Straw-Man]

foxy!!

[Zolnerowich]

On 12/18/2018 at 6:36 PM, lpsunburst said:

This one also just came in.

Such a cool book!

Inspired by the crazy cover, I took the liberty of posting some splash pages, and the climactic scene promised on the cover -- rather less racy than hoped for. Courtesy of Comic Book Plus:

Miss Joan Mason, in jeopardy. Turns out she doesn't like horrible slimy serpents.

 

Green Mask: two-page splash!

By-line says George Tuska, though Comic Book Plus indicates "Pierce Rice?"

[lpsunburst]

2 minutes ago, Zolnerowich said:

Such a cool book!

Inspired by the crazy cover, I took the liberty of posting some splash pages, and the climactic scene promised on the cover -- rather less racy than hoped for. Courtesy of Comic Book Plus:

Miss Joan Mason, in jeopardy. Turns out she doesn't like horrible slimy serpents.

 

Green Mask: two-page splash!

By-line says George Tuska, though Comic Book Plus indicates "Pierce Rice?"

Sadly so few of the Fox books live up to the promise of the artwork on the cover, I think Timely fully delivered on the other hand, some amazing splash pages in Timely books. I do think that Fox did a very good job with the storytelling however.

[Zolnerowich]

4 hours ago, lpsunburst said:

Sadly so few of the Fox books live up to the promise of the artwork on the cover, I think Timely fully delivered on the other hand, some amazing splash pages in Timely books. I do think that Fox did a very good job with the storytelling however.

Agreed. The Blue Beetle story in this issue is 14 pages long and full of twists and turns.

[gino2paulus2]

On 12/13/2018 at 9:08 PM, lpsunburst said:

I congratulated Gino on joining the MM 30 club and he asked about my copy so here it is, lots of amateur CT but you take what you can get with these later books.

One of my favorite covers of ALL time!!!! That is a gorgeous copy bro CT or not!!! 

[gino2paulus2]

On 12/18/2018 at 9:33 PM, lpsunburst said:

And since we have been talking about late run coolness...

 

On 12/18/2018 at 9:36 PM, lpsunburst said:

This one also just came in.

Oh MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those are AWESOME!!!! The 31 has been on the list for quite some time has continued to elude me. Great book bro!! 

[gino2paulus2]

Thanks to my bro Kenny for this one. Double posting and even though its an absolute beater its complete and still historic...

[Point Five]

20 minutes ago, gino2paulus2 said:

Thanks to my bro Kenny for this one. Double posting and even though its an absolute beater its complete and still historic...

 

[Zolnerowich]

On 12/29/2018 at 1:22 PM, gino2paulus2 said:

Thanks to my bro Kenny for this one. Double posting and even though its an absolute beater its complete and still historic...

One of the very best of all the early Foxes IMHO. Congrats! 

[Straw-Man]

any weird 1 is a great get!

[lpsunburst]

I like the Weird Ones

[Straw-Man]

the double-billy copy found the wright home.

Edited January 1, 2019 by Straw-Man